Transfer Ownership of Pages with Inactive User

[Suraj Patel]

Hi all, 

How can I transfer ownership quickly from a large catalog of pages owned by a user who is now inactive in our business confluence, given they have left our organization? Transferring ownership on a case-by-case process is plausible, but wondering how I can just mass transfer the pages our older team member used to own to the correct new owner.

[John Hooper]

Hi @Sur and @Laurie Sciutti ! I'm a PM on Confluence's team, and I can confirm that a bulk change page owner action is something that we're actively investigating and plan to begin work on soon.

Hope that helps!

[Hans van der Waarde]

A suggestion: a function to transfer all ownerships of a specific (often inactive) account to another would cover the most urgent cases, where a colleague leaves the company without transferring all ownerships to the new person in charge.

[Matthew Grover]

Hi,

I made an App for Confluence which provides some of this functionality.

You can tidy up your Page Owners with Bulk Update. Change the Owner of all Pages from one User to another including deleted Users.

See what Pages a User Owns including deleted Users. Get a full report of which Pages a User owns, including when they were updated and the Page Status, even for deleted Users.

See which Users own which Pages in a Space. See a fully sortable report showing Page Owner, Page Title, Last Updated Date and Page Status, for an individual Space or all Spaces at once. You can also download all of the results as a csv for further processing.

The App is available in the Atlassian Marketplace here.

thanks,

Matt

[Naveen Kumar_Appfire]

Hi @Suraj Patel 

[Naveen Kumar_Appfire]

Hi @Suraj Patel welcome to the Atlassian Community!

It is possible to change the owner of the page using the Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI)  

While running the below CLI action, you can change the page owner.

• To change the single-page 
  

  --action getGraphqlResult --query content_owner_update --field contentId=37093378 --field ownerId=<<use accountID>>

• To bulk change owners

  --action runFromPageList --space DRAW --input "--action getGraphqlResult --query content_owner_update --field contentId=@pageId@ --field ownerId=<<use accountID>>"

Currently, this feature is available for MAC and Linux platforms. We are still working on implementing it in the Windows platform as well.

Please refer to this article for installing and using the CLI actions CLI Client Installation and Use. 

Please raise a support request to the appfire portal for any assistance https://appfire.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/11

Thanks,
Naveen

[Hans van der Waarde]

Would be nice to have this on Windows any time soon, the owner of a large part of our Confluence left 11 years ago and I would like to have an active account being the owner.

[Laurie Sciutti]

Hi @Suraj Patel and welcome to the Community!  It is my understanding that the bulk change option is not currently available but is something the Atlassian team is aware of and working on (though I didn't see it on the Confluence Cloud roadmap).

Perhaps @Tiffany Chung can provide more information?